Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… a recurring trope in the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This included the melancholy Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It , who despised the world and wished to leave it behind, preferring amusements for his mind … him, on which is a skull, the emblem of mortality, an hour-glass, a book and a pair of spectacles’. 16 14 . William Shakespeare, As You Like It, First Avenue Editions (Minneapolis : Lerner Publishing, 2015), p. 40–2, 65–6. 15 . Anon., …
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